Daniel Kaluuya has found great success working as an actor in the United States, with credits in highly lauded films including 2017’s Get Out and 2018’s Black Panther. But, according to Kaluuya, what led him to find work across the pond is an issue with racism in his native England.
“I was going for a lot of stuff [in England],” he told The Sunday Times in a new interview. “But I wasn’t getting roles because of the color of my skin. It wasn’t fair. It was a trap.”
“For example, I went up for this show. It was 10 rounds of auditions. There was me and a white guy for the lead. It was about aliens. And I realized as I was going to one audition that the other guy had been given an acting coach. They didn’t love me like they loved him.”
He added, “In any other profession, that would be weird, but it was accepted in mine. It happened a few times, and I went, ‘Nah. I’m not an idiot.’”
In 2018, Kaluuya was recognized with BAFTA’s Rising Star Award. That same year, a report found that 94% of all BAFTA nominees were white.
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